Three cigars wrapped in piece of
paper. The fate of the Union came down to just that
in 1862.

Who smoked those cigars is unknown, but the paper wrapped about them
was Robert E. Lee's Special Orders 191 which
had just been discovered by soldiers of the 27th Indiana
under the command of General Alpheus Starkey Willims of
Detroit while bivouacked on a former Confederate
campground east of Frederick, Maryland on the thirteenth
of September 1862. It would become the turning
point of the American Civil War and, perhaps, of American
and World history. Welcome to Project Plug Ugly.